“One thing humans don’t know how to do is shut down peer to peer networks. We don’t have the technology. Generally it’s the case governments are understanding, but if you start crushing all the good [Bitcoin businesses] you’ll push this underground. I see a world in which governments can set the price.You could stop good exchanges, but it would be hard to stop secret ones. It’s so fast and so easy to use, the right thing to do is to build a good ecosystem. There may be a country that doesn’t want to deal with it, but citizens will keep using it.”
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/01/coinlab-peter-vessenes
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